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Culberson County
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county in Texas, United States
Culberson County is a county located in Texas in the United States. It is situated in West Texas and is known for being a remote, sparsely populated area in the state.
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- David B. Culberson
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Texas
- Capital
- Van Horn
- Population
- 2188
- Area
- 9875
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Otero County
- Official website
- www.co.culberson.tx.us
- Image
- Culberson courthouse 2009.jpg
- Households
- 668
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- water as percent of area
- 0.01
- native label
- Culberson County
- Commons category
- Culberson County, Texas
- topic's main category
- Category:Culberson County, Texas
- inception
- 1912-00-00
- per capita income
- 16353
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Encyclopedic overview
Culberson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,188. The county seat is Van Horn. Culberson County was founded in 1911 and organized the next year. It is named for David B. Culberson, a Confederate soldier and U.S. representative.
Culberson County is primarily in the Central Time Zone, but northwestern Culberson County, including Pine Springs and Guadalupe Mountains National Park, is in the Mountain Time Zone, making it one of only a few U.S. counties officially split into two time zones. It is one of the nine counties that comprise the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas.
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